Lucy_S
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Phew, a lot of questions. Hopefully someone can help me out
In my tank one of my red phantoms seems to be suffering from white lips ("cotton mouth" or something else?) - See pictures. I was wondering if I can treat this with sera omnipur without ruining my snail, shrimp and plants. And is it better to put him in a quarantine tank - or do I have to treat the whole tank because of contagiousness?
Tank size: 60x30x37 (+- 65L) + 40x25x25 (possible quarantaine tank?)
Big tank has now been running for 2 weeks - but both tanks were collected from local craigslist-like-site (I've kept the filters running and part of the substrate), 60cm tank had been running for a year with (a lot of) cherry shrimps. Current fish stock comes from the 40cm tank - I also picked that up on same site and transferred the fish in steps to the larger tank. The water values of the small tank were depressingly bad when I picked it up, so it's very possible that that's the cause of the stress/illness. I could use that small container as a quarantine container. Both tanks are (now) heavily planted. Small one is now a cherry shrimp tank.
Water values measured with easy 7-in-1 JBL aquatest: No3 - 0 / No2 - 0 / GHd approx 10 - 175 hardness ppm / KHd 6 - 107 alkalinity ppm / PH 7 / CI2 0-0.8
Not sure how good these test strips are, but these values seem to remain fairly stable.
Filter is an old superfish filter (100L, but little flow) + new eheim pickup 160 (pointed at the glass). The latter gives 220l/h according to the box.
At the moment I change about 30% of the water every 3 days because of the abrupt transfer and (over)loading of the filter/bacteria culture.
Affected fish is one red phantom tetra - but he shares his tank with: 3 other phantom salmon / 1x honey gourami / 2x corydoras aeneus / 2x otocinclus + 50 fire shrimp and a nerite zebra snail.
(Fishing stock collected in this way, not yet final or fixed - wanted to look into further changes if all was well for at least 3 weeks)
The red phantom still seems pretty energetic, I've noticed the lips since yesterday, but it could've started a bit earlier.
I haven't treated it yet in anyway, but I have sera omnipur on hand.
My questions are mainly:
1) What do you think it is -> is sera omnipur suitable?
2) Is it better to treat the whole tank or treat only the affected red phantom in a quarantine tank?
3) Can sera omnipur harm the tank inmates/plants?
In my tank one of my red phantoms seems to be suffering from white lips ("cotton mouth" or something else?) - See pictures. I was wondering if I can treat this with sera omnipur without ruining my snail, shrimp and plants. And is it better to put him in a quarantine tank - or do I have to treat the whole tank because of contagiousness?
Tank size: 60x30x37 (+- 65L) + 40x25x25 (possible quarantaine tank?)
Big tank has now been running for 2 weeks - but both tanks were collected from local craigslist-like-site (I've kept the filters running and part of the substrate), 60cm tank had been running for a year with (a lot of) cherry shrimps. Current fish stock comes from the 40cm tank - I also picked that up on same site and transferred the fish in steps to the larger tank. The water values of the small tank were depressingly bad when I picked it up, so it's very possible that that's the cause of the stress/illness. I could use that small container as a quarantine container. Both tanks are (now) heavily planted. Small one is now a cherry shrimp tank.
Water values measured with easy 7-in-1 JBL aquatest: No3 - 0 / No2 - 0 / GHd approx 10 - 175 hardness ppm / KHd 6 - 107 alkalinity ppm / PH 7 / CI2 0-0.8
Not sure how good these test strips are, but these values seem to remain fairly stable.
Filter is an old superfish filter (100L, but little flow) + new eheim pickup 160 (pointed at the glass). The latter gives 220l/h according to the box.
At the moment I change about 30% of the water every 3 days because of the abrupt transfer and (over)loading of the filter/bacteria culture.
Affected fish is one red phantom tetra - but he shares his tank with: 3 other phantom salmon / 1x honey gourami / 2x corydoras aeneus / 2x otocinclus + 50 fire shrimp and a nerite zebra snail.
(Fishing stock collected in this way, not yet final or fixed - wanted to look into further changes if all was well for at least 3 weeks)
The red phantom still seems pretty energetic, I've noticed the lips since yesterday, but it could've started a bit earlier.
I haven't treated it yet in anyway, but I have sera omnipur on hand.
My questions are mainly:
1) What do you think it is -> is sera omnipur suitable?
2) Is it better to treat the whole tank or treat only the affected red phantom in a quarantine tank?
3) Can sera omnipur harm the tank inmates/plants?